History Trivia / Dumbo2019

* FakeAmerican: Irishman Creator/ColinFarrell does a rather fluent American accent for Holt Harrier. Nico Parker and Finley Hobbins (Millie and Joe) are also actually Brits doing American accents.

* RealLifeRelative: Creator/DannyDeVito plays Max Medici and his daughter Lucy appears as a coat check girl.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget: 170 million. Worldwide Gross: 353.3 million. Facing a rather mediocre reception by critics and audiences, it failed to recoup its budget, becoming the first in the ''Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes'' series to flop.

* NamesTheSame: The name of Vandevere's amusement park is [[{{Franchise/Kirby}} Dreamland]].

* ActorSharedBackground: The French trapeze artist Colette Marchant is played by French actress Creator/EvaGreen.

* RealLifeRelative: Danny [=DeVito=] plays Max Medici and his daughter Lucy appears as a coat check girl.
* UnderminedByReality: Disney puts out a movie about the evils of corporate mergers... just days after concluding a massive deal to buy out 20th Century Fox, and immediately started massive lay-offs. The {{irony}} of this was [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/03/26/dumbo-review-tim-burton-colin-farrell-eva-green-danny-devito-michael-keaton-walt-disney-fox/#51fca8886207 not lost]] [[https://film.avclub.com/tim-burton-s-live-action-dumbo-bites-the-corporate-hand-1833553819 on professional]] [[https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/26/18282326/dumbo-review-live-action-remake-tim-burton critics]].

* FanNickname: ''[[Literature/WaterForElephants Water For Flying Elephants]]''

* UnderminedByReality: Disney puts out a movie about the evils of corporate mergers... just days after concluding a massive deal to buy out 20th Century Fox, and immediately started massive lay-offs. This was [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/03/26/dumbo-review-tim-burton-colin-farrell-eva-green-danny-devito-michael-keaton-walt-disney-fox/#51fca8886207 not lost]] [[https://film.avclub.com/tim-burton-s-live-action-dumbo-bites-the-corporate-hand-1833553819 on professional]] [[https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/26/18282326/dumbo-review-live-action-remake-tim-burton critics]].

* ProductionPosse: This is the fourth Creator/TimBurton movie that Creator/MichaelKeaton and Creator/DannyDeVito have appeared in each (and it's a "''Film/BatmanReturns'' Reunion" of sorts for the three of them), and the third for Creator/EvaGreen. It's also Creator/AlanArkin's second collaboration with Burton since ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'' and his first one since Arkin's CareerResurrection in 2006. Composer Music/DannyElfman, production designer Rick Heinrichs, film editor Chris Lebenzon and costume designer Colleen Atwood returned to collaborate with Burton once more.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Dreamland was a real amusement park on New York City's Coney Island owned by real estate developer William H. Reynolds. The park opened in 1904 and was very sophisticated and high-tech for its day. In 1911, an accident while attempting to repair an electrical malfunction started a huge fire that destroyed most of the park and the park was never rebuilt. The movie's Dreamland is based on the real-life Dreamland, from the demonstrations on future technology down to the sideshows (including an act featuring a clown firefighting troupe responding to a skyscraper fire) to the park's destruction. Unlike the real-life events:
** The owner's name was changed to V.A. Vandervere and was depicted simply as a smug, unethical promoter indifferent to others and the safety of his animals.
** The fictional Dreamland was destroyed in 1919, eight years after the real park was destroyed.
** The real-life Reynolds was able to recoup his losses by selling the land where Dreamland once stood and cashing in on outstanding bonds. In the movie, Vandervere's future is unclear, as he is last seen watching the park being destroyed by the fire.
** The cause of the fire is also fictionalized. The real-life fire was caused by an accident as electrical repairs were being made to the Hell's Gate attraction, in which, following an power outage, a worker accidentally knocked over a bucket of hot tar, which found an ignition source and started the inferno. In the movie, Vandervere -- in trying to stop the Medici troupe from helping Dumbo's mother escape execution [[note]]Dumbo and Collette had gained access to the control tower and cut power to the park, so as to thwart Vandervere and his men[[/note]] -- in a panicked moment of overzealousness attempts to restore power to the park but completely overloads the electrical system.